The Tech Blog of Dan Usher

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  • Renaming your LiveID

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    If you’ve found yourself running into a problem of having an Organization ID and a EASID (LiveID with an e-mail address) with the same name – you may find yourself frustrated when working with Microsoft Services, whether that’s MSDN, Office.com or something else that has a Microsoft login. Further, you might find yourself wondering, “what’s…

  • Office 365 URLs and IP Addresses

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    Are you “the IT person” for your organization? Do you find your users complaining from time to time that the user experience for Office 365 doesn’t work the way that they anticipate that it should? Do they talk about timeouts or error messages popping up stating a component can be loaded? Have you checked your…

  • Office 365 Developer Tenants

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    Are you a Developer? Do you write JavaScript code? Did you recently hear about the SharePoint Framework and you’re intrigued and you’re looking to learn more? Are you looking for somewhere to work on your code without necessarily having to consume resources from your Production tenant that you’re running Office 365 within? Consider heading over…

  • Setting up an Office 365 E3 Tenant…

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    If you’re like me and you find yourself needing to spin up an Office 365 E3 tenant on a regular basis for demonstration purposes, head on over to Office.com and eventually after poking around you’ll eventually come to the a page that describes all of the plans. From there, select the Enterprise plans and you’ll…

  • SharePoint Users Group of DC

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    This past week I had the pleasure of presenting at the SharePoint Users Group of DC. They’re a terrific group that meets in the McLean / Tyson’s Corner area of Northern Virginia. The focus of the group meeting was to discuss the benefits and gotchas of utilizing Office 365, primarily around SharePoint Online capabilities but…

  • SPSBurgh 2016

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    I’d like to thank those that were able to attend my session on “Getting Started with Office 365” this past Saturday at #SPSBurgh, also known as SharePoint Saturday Pittsburgh. The event was well prepped and hosted in downtown Pittsburgh. It was great to engage with attendees as well as to see friends of old that…

  • SharePoint Saturday New York 2016 – Getting Started with Office 365

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    It’s been nearly a year since I’ve been up to the Big Apple for a conference or technology show and once more the SPSNYC team without fail has pulled off a terrific show with a solid group of speakers and sponsors. This go round I had the privilege of presenting on a topic near and…

  • Intel NUCs…

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    For the past five years or so, Intel Corporation has been building what they term the Next Unit of Computing or NUC for short. What is a NUC? It’s effectively a stripped down ultrabook computer that is housed within a small cube like box – think back to when Apple had their cube like tissue…

  • Don’t miss it…

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    Just in case you’ve been spending too much time configuring your content types or building SharePoint farms in Azure, you may want to quickly go register for the Microsoft Office Group’s “The Future of SharePoint” event that’s taking place today (May 4). More details about registration are available here – https://resources.office.com/en-us-landing-the-future-of-sharepoint.html?wt.mc_id=5000792